Pleurotaceae

Taxobox | name = Pleurotaceae

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image_caption = "Pleurotus ostreatus"
Albin Schmalfuß, 1897
regnum = Fungi
divisio = Basidiomycota
classis = Agaricomycetes
ordo = Agaricales
familia = Pleurotaceae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Agaricochaete"
"Pleurotus"
"Hohenbuehelia"

Pleurotaceae is a family of small to medium sized mushrooms which have white spores. Members of "Pleurotaceae" can be mistaken for members of "Omphalotaceae". Perhaps the best known member is the oyster mushroom.